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Affected residents of the devastating flash floods inside a university gymnasium acting as an evacuation center in Iligan City, southern island of Mindanao. The number of people killed in flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has risen above 1,000, the civil defence chief told AFP on December 21.

Affected residents of the devastating flash floods inside a university gymnasium acting as an evacuation center in Iligan City, southern island of Mindanao. The number of people killed in flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has risen above 1,000, the civil defence chief told AFP on December 21. (Getty Images)

Affected residents of the devastating flash floods inside a university gymnasium acting as an evacuation center in Iligan City, southern island of Mindanao. The number of people killed in flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has risen above 1,000, the civil defence chief told AFP on December 21.